Karl Beck-Rzikowsky

Karl Beck-Rzikowsky was a general of the Austrian Empire. Beck-Rzikowsky, of deep Polish roots, was the commander of the Austrian 1st Army in Milan.

Biography
Karl Beck-Rzikowsky was born in Breslau, Silesia (present-day Wroclaw, Poland) in the Austrian Empire to a family of noble Poles and Austrians. Beck-Rzikowsky was a veteran of the Napoleonic Wars, and he was appointed to command the Austrian 1st Army in January 1838. Beck-Rzikowsky was in command of an army of 24,000 Austrian troops stationed in Milan in Austrian Lombardia, and he suppressed all Italian patriotic movements in Austrian Italy.